While Rahm Emanuel continues to blame school budget cuts on retirees' pensions, his machine partner Eddie Burke is getting fat ripping off the schools by helping corporate pals avoid paying property taxes. In doing so, Burke has the full cooperation of Rahm and his City Hall legal department which rarely challenges tax appeals from Burke's clients.
Ankur Singh, student at University of Missouri-Mizzou, took a semester off to interview and film various students, teachers, parents, activists, and all the alike from all over the country to get their perspective on the current state of our education system.
It’s a bird, it’s a plane—no, it’s the corporate education reform movement, a many-headed hydra racing down our nation’s educational tracks with such velocity that mixed metaphors are required even to describe it. But hark: beneath that bedazzled and bedazzling exterior lurks a messy interior—one that’s getting messier by the day. Let’s take a peek, shall we?
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